Project Management Jobs in the West Midlands

Project Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +10
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 638 654 838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.90% 11.31% 10.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.82% 11.69% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 467 327 572
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £58,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,498 5,596 7,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.51% 96.73% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,704 3,145 4,831
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,500 £31,120
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +3 242 £55,000 -4.35% 100
Warwickshire -16 88 £50,000 -5.21% 31
Staffordshire -9 78 £52,500 -4.55% 41
Shropshire +17 38 £50,000 -14.89% 16
Wolverhampton +20 27 £53,500 -2.73% 8
Solihull -1 23 £47,500 -9.52% 6
Worcestershire -21 20 £45,000 -6.98% 19
Herefordshire +4 16 £35,000 -26.32% 6
Walsall +16 7 £47,500 -9.52% 11
Coventry +7 6 £45,000 -18.18% 32
Wednesbury 0 4 £83,250 +137.86% 2
Halesowen - 4 £35,000 -
Dudley - 4 £53,500 - 1
Brierley Hill - 1 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 1 - - 2
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.04%) Confluence
3 11 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.41%) WordPress
5 7 (1.10%) CMS
6 4 (0.63%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 46 (7.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (4.23%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (2.19%) AutoCAD
6 10 (1.57%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (1.10%) Trello
8 4 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.63%) InDesign
8 4 (0.63%) Simulink
9 2 (0.31%) 3ds Max
9 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.31%) Sketch
10 1 (0.16%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.47%) ProductWriter
3 3 (0.47%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.47%) Sage 300 ERP
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.31%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 2 (0.31%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.31%) Shopify
5 1 (0.16%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.16%) Epicor Vantage
5 1 (0.16%) Magento
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.16%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 60 (9.40%) Azure
2 45 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (7.05%) Power Platform
3 30 (4.70%) SaaS
4 27 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (3.76%) AWS
6 17 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
6 17 (2.66%) Power Automate
7 13 (2.04%) Smartsheet
8 12 (1.88%) IaaS
8 12 (1.88%) PaaS
8 12 (1.88%) PowerApps
9 11 (1.72%) GitHub
10 10 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (1.41%) Google Drive
12 7 (1.10%) Mavenlink
13 5 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.78%) Amazon S3
13 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (0.78%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.41%) Firewall
2 8 (1.25%) Intranet
3 7 (1.10%) WAN
4 6 (0.94%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.63%) DHCP
5 4 (0.63%) DNS
5 4 (0.63%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (0.63%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.63%) SNMP
6 3 (0.47%) Extranet
6 3 (0.47%) Internet
6 3 (0.47%) LAN
6 3 (0.47%) Network Security
6 3 (0.47%) WebEx
7 2 (0.31%) 5G
7 2 (0.31%) RFID
7 2 (0.31%) SAN
7 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.31%) VPN
7 2 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.74%) Power BI
2 15 (2.35%) MySQL
3 8 (1.25%) Data Lake
3 8 (1.25%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (0.94%) Data Mining
5 6 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.78%) Metadata
7 4 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.63%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.47%) Tableau
9 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (5.33%) JIRA
2 16 (2.51%) Git
3 10 (1.57%) SonarQube
4 5 (0.78%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.63%) Postman
6 2 (0.31%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.31%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.31%) gulp
7 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.16%) GitLab
7 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 294 (46.08%) Social Skills
2 196 (30.72%) Finance
3 113 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (10.66%) Manufacturing
5 62 (9.72%) Organisational Skills
6 47 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (7.21%) Influencing Skills
7 46 (7.21%) Marketing
8 43 (6.74%) Retail
9 33 (5.17%) Legal
10 29 (4.55%) Automotive
11 23 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (3.61%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.82%) Public Sector
13 17 (2.66%) Games
14 15 (2.35%) Environmental Health
15 14 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.72%) Local Government
17 9 (1.41%) Law
18 8 (1.25%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 214 (33.54%) Project Manager
2 65 (10.19%) Lead
3 58 (9.09%) Senior
4 35 (5.49%) IT Manager
5 34 (5.33%) Consultant
5 34 (5.33%) Senior Manager
6 25 (3.92%) Analyst
6 25 (3.92%) Delivery Manager
7 24 (3.76%) Coordinator
8 22 (3.45%) Developer
9 20 (3.13%) Senior Project Manager
10 19 (2.98%) Head of IT
10 19 (2.98%) Technical Manager
11 18 (2.82%) Business Manager
12 17 (2.66%) Applications Manager
12 17 (2.66%) Infrastructure Manager
13 15 (2.35%) Software Manager
14 14 (2.19%) Applications Project Manager
14 14 (2.19%) Business Analyst
14 14 (2.19%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.88%) HTML
2 11 (1.72%) .NET
2 11 (1.72%) RESTful
3 10 (1.57%) ARM Templates
3 10 (1.57%) Azure Blueprints
3 10 (1.57%) CSS
4 9 (1.41%) SOAP
5 7 (1.10%) JSON
6 6 (0.94%) Laravel
7 5 (0.78%) Web Services
7 5 (0.78%) XML
8 4 (0.63%) Node.js
8 4 (0.63%) Spring
8 4 (0.63%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.31%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 2 (0.31%) Express.js
9 2 (0.31%) HTML5
9 2 (0.31%) React Native
9 2 (0.31%) Sass
9 2 (0.31%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.70%) Management Information System
2 30 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 28 (4.39%) PMI
3 28 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (2.66%) NHS
6 14 (2.19%) Driving Licence
6 14 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.72%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.41%) Photography
9 9 (1.41%) SCADA
10 7 (1.10%) CCTV
11 6 (0.94%) Augmented Reality
11 6 (0.94%) Industry 4.0
11 6 (0.94%) IoT
11 6 (0.94%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.86%) Windows
2 12 (1.88%) Windows 10
3 9 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.94%) Android
5 5 (0.78%) Linux
6 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.63%) VMS
7 1 (0.16%) CentOS
7 1 (0.16%) Debian
7 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Scientific Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (25.24%) Agile
2 134 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
3 119 (18.65%) Project Delivery
4 112 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 104 (16.30%) PRINCE2
6 86 (13.48%) Mentoring
7 84 (13.17%) Risk Management
8 82 (12.85%) Change Management
9 74 (11.60%) Stakeholder Management
10 64 (10.03%) Customer Service
11 60 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
12 56 (8.78%) Decision-Making
13 47 (7.37%) ERP
13 47 (7.37%) Waterfall
14 46 (7.21%) Coaching
15 45 (7.05%) Service Delivery
16 44 (6.90%) Analytics
16 44 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
16 44 (6.90%) Roadmaps
17 41 (6.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (4.55%) SQL
2 27 (4.23%) JavaScript
3 13 (2.04%) PHP
4 7 (1.10%) C#
5 6 (0.94%) C
6 5 (0.78%) Java
6 5 (0.78%) MATLAB
7 4 (0.63%) Python
8 3 (0.47%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.47%) VB
9 2 (0.31%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.31%) SOQL
10 1 (0.16%) ABAP
10 1 (0.16%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.16%) SAPscript
10 1 (0.16%) Tcl
10 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 177 (27.74%) Degree
2 64 (10.03%) Security Cleared
3 54 (8.46%) PMI Certification
4 40 (6.27%) PMP
5 27 (4.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 24 (3.76%) SC Cleared
7 18 (2.82%) APMP
8 13 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 12 (1.88%) HND
10 10 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.57%) CAPM
10 10 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.41%) APMG
11 9 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.94%) MBA
13 5 (0.78%) CISA
13 5 (0.78%) CISSP
13 5 (0.78%) CRISC
13 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.78%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.37%) PMO
2 29 (4.55%) GDPR
2 29 (4.55%) QA
3 22 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.57%) NCSC
5 8 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.10%) SLA
7 4 (0.63%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.47%) GMP
8 3 (0.47%) ISO 26262
8 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.31%) Automotive SPICE
9 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.31%) GRC
9 2 (0.31%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.31%) NIST
9 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.31%) SOX 404
System Software
1 10 (1.57%) Docker
2 8 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.63%) pfSense
5 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (2.19%) Terraform
2 10 (1.57%) Ansible
2 10 (1.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.31%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 100 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.61%) IFS
3 19 (2.98%) SAP
4 17 (2.66%) Workday
5 15 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.19%) Google
6 14 (2.19%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.88%) Adobe
8 10 (1.57%) CheckPoint
9 9 (1.41%) Xero
10 8 (1.25%) VMware
11 7 (1.10%) Cisco
11 7 (1.10%) Siemens
12 6 (0.94%) Dell
13 5 (0.78%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.63%) BroadSoft
14 4 (0.63%) Brocade
14 4 (0.63%) QNAP
14 4 (0.63%) Veeam
14 4 (0.63%) Zerto